Hog-trough.



PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905.

0. H. P. & J. W. GOOD.

HOG .TROUGH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12. 1904.

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No. 792,981. PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905. O. H. P. & J. W. GOOD.

HOG TROUGH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12. 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 20, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER H. P. GOOD AND JOSEPH W. GOOD, OF AUBURN, NEBRASKA.

HOG-THOUGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,981, dated June 20,1905.

Application filed September 12, 1904. Serial No. 224,201.

To (oil whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, OLIVER H. P. GOOD and J OSEPH W. Goon, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Auburn, in the county of Nemaha and Stateof Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hog- Troughs,ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in what may be termed hog oranimal troughs.

It has generally for its object to provide for the individual feeding ofthe animals, and yet form a common receptacle or trough, and so thatthey may not encroach one upon the other, and to prevent their wastingor nosing the food or the contents of their respectivefeeding-compartments out of the latter.

It also precludes the hog or animal placing his forward feet into thecompartment or trough as in eating.

Further, it provides for the simultaneous feeding of two different setsor sizes of hogs and for facilitating the feeding of the food or garbageto the animals, as well as for removing sediment, &c., from the trough.

Said invention consists of certain structural features, substantially ashereinafter more fully disclosed, and particularly pointed out by theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment ofour invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view thereof, with thecompartment subdividing partition or guard elevated. Fig. 2 is across-section. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 is a view ofthe food-supplying end of the trough.

In the carrying out of our invention we provide a receptacle or troughproper, 1, of any required capacity, with preferably inward and downwardinclined end and lateral portions, the purpose of which is obvious. Saidtrough proper or receptacle is divided into a number of feedingcompartments or chambers 1 by means of a plurality of transversepartitions 1", arranged and suitably secured within said receptacle ortrough. Said partitions are each principally comprised of two inclinedmembers or boards 1 secured upon a central tapered horizontal meml beror timber 1, said boards having upper meeting or converging edges, whilethe lower diverging edges of the intermediary boards join each other,and the corresponding edges of the end boards join the bottom edges ofthe inward-inclined end portions or walls of the receptacle or trough.Said chambers or compartments are thus formed with downward-conyergingwalls terminating in tapered bottoms as preferable for the purposes offood-holding or feeding chambers, as is apparent. Said partitions arethemselves subdivided or cut in two transversely and about centrally byremoving, as it were, therefrom V-shaped portions, producingcorrespondingly-shaped passage-ways 1 therethrough, with the otherwisethus formed angular edges upon said partitions preferably concaved orremoved for obvious reasons. Said passage-ways provide for theunobstructed flow of the garbage or other food from one compartment orchamber to the other as said garbage or food is delivered or poured intothe trough at one end, as presently made apparent. Thus the contents ofthe several compartments or chambers of the trough mutually contributeto the replenishing of the other accordingly as the contents of one orthe other is consumed by an animal. Also it is noted that the residue ofany one chamber or compartment, or any nosing of the contents thereof bythe animal or hog, will be received by the adjoining compartment orchamber, thus preventing the wasting of said contents or food in thatway, as has heretofore been experienced.

The securing means between the horizontal tapered member 1 and the twoparts of a board I of each partition 1" consists, preferably, of twoscrew-rods 1, passed through said member and said parts, respectively,with their upper ends provided with heads and their opposite ends havingapplied thereto nuts.

Arranged to rest upon the trough 1 at its longitudinal center and hingedthereto at one end is a guard or partition 2, consisting, preferably, ofan inverted-V-shaped base member 2 and a panel 2, formed of uprights 2secured at their lower ends to Said base member at its ends, andlongitudinal boards 2, secured between said uprights.

' member has its flared or divergent portions provided with preferablyconcaved notches or recesses 2, arranged just above and coincidentallywith the compartments or chambers 1 of the trough and to provide forlimiting the extent to which the animals or hogs may insert their snoutsinto the compartment or chamber to properly reach the food or contentsthereof and yet preclude the animals getting their feet at the same timeinto said compartment. As the compartments or chambers by reason of theconstruction above described recede downward and centrally toward thebottom, the tendency is to cause the animal or hog to reach forward forits food or contents therein, and thus almost wholly obviate theliability of its wasting the food over the forward edge of the trough.It will also be noted that by the use of the panel hogs or animals canbe divided up as to sizes, thus permitting the feeding of differentsizes at the same time upon opposite sides of said panel. At theopposite or forward'end of the trough 1 is provided a chute or hopper 3for delivering or pouring the food or garbage thereinto,

said chute or hopper being partially formed by an inward and downwardinclined board or extension 2 of the base member 2 at that end thereof,it having an inverted-V-shaped opening therethrough opposite said hopperor chute for the passage of the food or garbage from the latter into thetrough. Thus the forward end of the guard or partition is adapted to besuitably held in place by means, preferably, of hooks 4c, looselyconnected to the trough edge and adapted to be engaged with staples oreyes 4:, secured to the under side of the board extension 2 of saidguard or partition. Also it is noted that by being enabled to deliver 0rpour the food for the animals or hogs into the trough from one endthereof, as herein shown, this can be done with much greater facilityand less trouble than where it is required to come directly in contactwith the hogs for that purpose.

Latitude, it will be understood, is allowed herein as to details, asthey may be changed as circumstances suggest without departing from thespirit of our invention for that pur- Said base pose, the trough ordevice to be made out of wood, iron, or cement, or a combination of thesame.

We claim 1. A device of the character described, comprising acompartment-receptacle, compartment forming partitions there forprovided with laterally-diverging walls having upper converging edges,said partitions having transverse central passage-ways therethrough.

2. A device of the character described, comprising acompartment-receptacle and a guard therefor effective to limit theextent to which the animals may insert their snouts thereinto and havingrecesses or notches each spanning a compartment or chamber of saidreceptacle.

3. A device of the character described, comprising acompartment-receptacle, compartment-forming partitions therefor having atransverse passage-way therethrough, and a guard therefor effective tolimit the extent to which the animals may insert their snouts into saidreceptacle, and having recesses or notches coinciding with, and arrangedjust above the receptacle-compartments of said receptacle.

4. A device of the character described, comprising acompartment-receptacle compartment-forming partitions therefor providedwith central transverse passage-ways therethrough, a guard hinged to oneend of said receptacle and having its base member provided with notchesor recesses coinciding with the chambers or compartments of saidreceptacle, said guard having a panel member extending across the sameat about its longitudinal center.

5. A device of the character described, comprising a receptacle havingfeeding compartments or chambers and a supply chute or hopper at oneend, and a guard hinged or pivoted to the opposite end of saidreceptacle, and having an inclined board extension, adapted to partiallyform said chute or hopper.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OLlVER H. P. GOOD JOSEPH W. GOOD. Witnesses:

H. A. LAMBERT, FRED G. HAWNBY.

